Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>i personally like: >> >>- fido >>- rover >>- spot >> >>for a dog. >> >>the last two take a moment to decode, so cut from their quotidian roots >>have the names become. >> >>the first one remains quite mysterious to me. > > >Comes from 'true' or 'loyal' in Latin. > >I had a hunch back in 1961 in High School that this Latin stuff would come >in handy one day. Glad it finally did. > > * Henning J. Wulff aw man, when i was in high school, 'latin' didn't mean 'latin' (i.e. the language) any more, and neither latin nor greek were taught. i believe the choices were french and spanish. period. nowadays, as 'college education' is becoming more and more equivalent to 'job training,' many colleges (not major universities, mind you, but smaller universities and colleges) are losing financial support for 'economically challenged' languages, less and less of which are being 'offered' - a sad situation indeed. from the land of the mighty dollar, i remain yours sincerely, guy